Abigail Bodner

Abigail Bodner is an Assistant Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), holding a joint appointment between the Departments of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (EAPS) and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS). Her research spans climate science, physical oceanography, and geophysical fluid dynamics, focusing on turbulence in the upper ocean across scales from 100 km to 1 m using theory, simulations, climate models, and machine learning. She also studies coastal sea level drivers and co-founded Climatematch Academy, an online program for computational training in climate science.

• Education: ScM in Applied Mathematics from Brown University; MSc in Atmospheric Sciences from Tel Aviv University; BSc in Mathematics and Earth Sciences from Tel Aviv University

Her current work emphasizes ocean submesoscale turbulence parameterization, with a focus on improving climate models through data-driven approaches. She has developed physics-based methods to address unresolved ocean-atmosphere interactions in climate models.

Scientific awards include the Community Earth Systems Model Graduate Student Award. She is actively recruiting postdoctoral associates at MIT and collaborates with institutions like NYU's Courant Institute.